Now you're in menopause,
your ovaries are declining.
You're not getting as much estrogen, but
your hypothalamus is registering that this
decline and is giving you a hot flash.
So we want to make sure we're cleaning
up the neurons in that hypothalamus area.
We also want to make sure that your
ovaries are working at their best,
and there is one fast that can
accomplish both of those things.
Dr.
Mindy here and on this video,
we're going through hot flashes.
So those of you that have reached out
to us and said, Oh my gosh, how are
these hot flashes happening to me?
Why are they happening?
fasting maybe making it worse.
Maybe fasting's not helping it.
I'm going to give you on this video.
Five things that you need to think about
in order to use fasting as a tool, to
be able to overcome them hot flashes.
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Okay, you ready?
Five things.
And I'm going to start with some
informational things that help you
understand why you're getting hot flashes.
So after 40, I want you to
remember that estrogen decline.
So now in your forties,
your estrogen is doing this.
It's going up, down, up down.
But for the most part,
it's steadily declining.
This decline in estrogen triggers
the hypothalamus in the brain
and the hypothalamus and the
brain controls temperature.
So as estrogen goes down, it
triggers the hypothalamus.
The hypothalamus goes, Oh my God,
we have to heat this body up and
it'll start to create an elevated.
Hot flash.
So you are getting your hot flashes
because of the decline in estrogen.
The second thing I want you to know is
that you have three types of estrogen.
One is a protective estrogen,
and two are harmful estrogens.
One of those two in particular,
is cancer causing estrogen.
So we want to make sure if you already have
this decline going on, I want to make sure
that you're bringing up the good estrogens,
the protective ones, and you're minimizing
the bad ones and that you're supporting
organs that help to break estrogen down.
So what does that look like in action?
2-OH are helpful estrogen.
And you guys could find this on a Dutch test.
If you've run a Dutch test, this
is the easiest place to see this,
but the 2-OH is the most helpful.
And you can get this through a
lot of leafy green vegetables.
You can get it through flaxseed oil.
You can even get it through coffee.
So make sure that you're upping your
not, this is not a five cup a day
coffee experience, but I want you to up
your good coffee, maybe a cup or two.
You don't need to go more than that.
Make sure it's mold-free and pesticide free.
I want you to think about more around your
leafy greens and something like Andreas seed
oils, where you can take flax seed oil, cold
compressed flaxseed oil, put it in tablespoon
and just have a couple of scoops of it a day.
And now you are bringing
your estrogen levels up.
Now, if you're listening to this and you're
like, Oh, what the heck is she talking about?
I've put together a
menopausal survival guide.
So don't worry.
Everything I'm telling you here is
going to be in the survival guide, plus
all my favorite hacks for menopause.
So just put menopause survival guide
in the comments and my team will
make sure you get a link to that.
It's a free survival guide for you.
So we want to make sure we're
bringing up the helpful ones with
the foods I just talked about, and
we want to minimize the harmful ones.
Bad 4-OH the harmful one
is coming in from toxins.
So make sure you're
minimizing your toxic load.
And then the third estrogen I want
you to think about is what we call
16-OH and this particular estrogen
is broken down in the liver.
So I want you to be very
mindful of your liver.
So your habits like alcohol and your
medications, especially pain relievers, like
Acetaminophen, those can be very damaging.
So I want to make sure that you're
keeping your liver damaging habits
down and that you're promoting the
foods that you need to be leaning into.
I'll go through more in a moment, but
you want to be promoting more of those
foods that raise the good estrogens.
Okay now, which fast, third thing
I would tell you is which fast.
Okay.
When we look at estrogen, we've got to
think about what we call the HP access.
So hypothalamus, pituitary, and ovaries.
Now you're in menopause.
Your ovaries are declining.
You're not getting as much estrogen.
But your hypothalamus is registering that
this decline and is giving you a hot flash.
So we want to make sure we're cleaning
up the neurons in that hypothalamus area.
We also want to make sure that your ovaries
are working at their best, and there is one.
Fast that can accomplish
both of those things.
And that's an Autophagy fast.
The fecal cells around the outside
of your ovaries are very sensitive to
Autophagy their program for Autophagy.
So more 17 hour fast lean into that
so that we can get those ovaries
healing and doing their best as they're
exiting out then the hypothalamus.
This is what's registering
the decline in estrogen.
So we need it to just calm down.
We need it to be healthy.
So if we lean into Autophagy
fasting, we can repair the neurons
in that part of your brain.
Number one, fast for hot
flashes is a autophagy fasting.
Now the second fast that I really like
for using estrogen is a 24 hour fast.
The reason I like the 24 hour fast is
because it helps to repair your microbiome.
And I've said this before on
videos, you have a whole set of
bacteria that break estrogen down.
So every 24 hour fast
that you throw in there.
What you're doing is you're creating
this terrain in your gut that is gonna
help you use the estrogen, the little
bit of estrogen that you're getting, it's
gonna help you use that estrogen more
so that it doesn't get stored as fat.
It gets stored in brain
tissue or nervous tissue.
We want you to use a little bit of estrogen.
If you don't use it, you'll lose it.
If you lose it, the hypothalamus
gets mad and gives you a hot flash.
So more 17 hours, more 24 hour, once a
week, 24 hour fast would be incredible.
Okay.
What about food?
So now you're like, Hey, I got this.
I should be doing 17 hours, maybe three to
four times a week, maybe one day a week.
I'm doing a 24 hour fast one day a week.
I like you guys to feast.
What do I eat when I say not fasting
and for hot flashes, you really
want to support estrogen production.
So you want to help to
bring up the good estrogens.
You want foods that will help you
break down the harmful estrogens.
So here's a list and I'm going to go fast.
Okay.
The brassica family.
So brussel sprouts, kale, broccoli,
artichokes, leafy greens, onions, garlics,
beets, carrots, flax seeds, fermented
foods, berries, orange, and red peppers.
These are foods that will help
you bring up the good estrogen
and breakdown, the bad estrogen.
It's also really important
that you stay hydrated.
So make sure you're getting six to
eight glasses of clean water a day.
And then the last thing, this is the
one that you really have to focus in.
I probably should have started the whole
video on this one, which is avoid the
Standard American Diet, the bad oils,
the refined flours, the refined sugars.
This is going to make your good estrogens
plummet, your bad estrogens go up.
It's going to contribute to
more of your hot flashes.
So avoid the standard American diet and
add in the foods that I just mentioned.
Okay, last thing.
And remember if you're like,
Oh, this is really good.
I need more hacks like this,
my menopausal survival guide.
Just put that in the comments and we'll
make sure that you get a copy of it.
But the last major point I want to make,
which is that not only do you need your
liver healthy, so watch some of those liver
depleting habits like alcohol drinking.
I also want you to focus in
on just overall gut health.
So staying away from antibiotics and
antibiotic rich meat, antibiotics, you
know, that's a conversation between you
and your doctor, but we really want to
minimize those should be life threatening
moments that you lean into antibiotics.
So be very cautious about how much
antibiotics you're ingesting, how
much of the antibacterial soaps you're
putting on your hands, how much of the
antibiotic rich meats you're eating?
Cause that is destroying these bacteria
that will break estrogen down and then add
in the foods I talked, but you can also
add in some more polyphenol foods, like.
You know, every once in a while,
a glass of dry farm wines would
not be the end of the world.
And we have a very specific style of wine.
That's, non-toxic it's in the
survival guide, but you could also
put dry farm wines in the comments.
And my team will give you a link
to that, but make sure if you are
drinking that it's beneficial.
Like I just found out this
is really interesting.
I just found out today in researching for
this video, that cab franc that grape
has the highest amount of resveratrol
and resveratrol will help you raise the
good estrogen and break down the bad.
So, you know, something as simple
as a dry farm wine glass, every
once in a while could actually be
beneficial too much, not so beneficial.
So liver and gut pay
attention to your microbiome.
And again, use fasting, lean into these
Autophagy and the 24 hour fast lean into
the eating the foods that I mentioned,
and absolutely you can manager your
hot flashes using these techniques.
Last thing, those of you
that bought the book.
So it's coming out next week and
just really excited for your support.
So I want to start off by saying thank you.
When you get the book, I would love for you
guys to pick up the book, take a picture with
it and put #menopausereset on social media.
We will find it.
I am also on a mission to rebrand menopause.
Menopause doesn't have to be getting
old and slowing down menopause could
be that you're actually stepping into
the best moment of your life with the
best sleep and the best moods and the
best body that you've ever created.
And that's what this book is helping you do.
So as always, you guys are
awesome and I hope that helps.